Historic images - Walkaround : The Block Arcade : Melbourne Victoria Australia

Описание: The Block Arcade is a historic shopping arcade in the central business district of Melbourne, Victoria, Australia. Constructed between 1891 and 1893, it is considered one of the late Victorian era's finest shopping arcades and ranks among Melbourne's most popular tourist attractions.

The arcade takes its name from the practice of "doing the block": dressing fashionably and promenading the section of Collins Street between Elizabeth and Swanston streets. It is listed on the Victorian Heritage Register.

The Hopetoun Tea Rooms opened in 1894, established by 'society girl' Miss Chrissie Robertson, 'daintily appointed' and intended for her society friends who did not wish to patronise ordinary tea rooms. Moving to the current rooms in 1907, it was redecorated in 1976 in Victorian style, with emerald and black wallpaper, and velvet ceiling hangings, designed by interior designer Murray Sheldrick.

The business went into receivership in 2020, and along with the right to the name was sold to a new owner who opened a new Hopetoun Tea Room in Bourke Street, with the arcade tea rooms reopened by the Cohen family as The Tea Rooms 1892 ... wikipedia

Credits and References:

State Library – Victoria https://www.slv.vic.gov.au/
Photographers and contributors;
Benini, Bruno
Twentyman & Askew, architect
Disney, Elizabeth (1943 - ___)
Bradford, Hilary
Fowler, Lyle, (1891 - 1969)
Kerr Brothers
Collins, John T. (1907 – 2001)

Wikipedia https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Block_A...
National Archives of Australia
National Library Australia https://trove.nla.gov.au/work/2309570...